My apologies for not mentioning this earlier at Discuss but Dr Alan McManus
(who wrote "Alchemy at the Chalkface: Pirsig, Pedagogy and the MOQ") has just
published another excellent MOQ based book: "Only Say The Word".
In this latest text, Dr McManus examines the often thorny issue surrounding the
Roman Catholic Church and homosexuality. McManus says:
'This text provides not only a useful argument for
a more merciful reading of Scripture than that usually employed to condemn
same-sex relationships, but using the MOQ, also a philosophical analysis of the
nature of 'nature'. Finding that all, and only, those relationships which are
harmonious can be considered natural, the author invites us to only say the
Word, that we may all be healed.'
By the way, please don't be misled by the reference to "scripture" or "healing"
here. (Yes, these got my hackles up too!) This text is as friendly to
traditional translations (misrepresentations?) of "Scripture" as William James'
"Varieties of Religious Experience" is to supporting a belief in a theistic
God.
McManus can read most, if not all, the "books" that make-up the various
biblical texts in their original languages (such as Hebrew) so just like
Pirsig's re-defining of Values from scratch, that's what McManus does with
re-assessing how anti-gay the biblical stories actually are.
Using the MOQ to ground his case, McManus provides strong evidence that most of
the stories dealing with homosexuality in the Bible have been mis-translated
(often on highly dubious criteria) and are actually PRO-GAY (especially when we
reach the era of Jesus - a true pragmatist - and the New Testament). Don't
believe me? Read McManus's book!
Further details of both Dr McManus's MOQ texts can be found via the following
link:
http://robertpirsig.org/Alchemy.htm
Best wishes,
Ant
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